Poetry of Issue #8        Page 63

POEMS FOR A BREAKDOWN TIME (2000-09)

EX: FUDÔ 2000
                                          To Predrag Matvejević, who wrote for Yugoslavia

HEADNOTE: Fudô or Fudoh = esoteric Buddhist godhead of wrath, irate
aspect of Enlightenment: blue-black face appearing amid flames, sword in
one hand & rope in other hand to cut off & bind evil passions.
-- Please observe the deviant stresses on the <i'>s.

What poems, mind of mine, may you now sing
When corrupt desire rules the ex-communìsts
When massy murder, brainwash & whoring enlists --
Few are saved -- their lust for easeful things?

What hopes may now be found to grow new wings?
We in our youth, emerged from bloody mists,
Saw Fudoh's sword in hands of antìfascìsts
& the people's rule a real thing,

Wrathful & kind.
Now i let my country go,
Murderously after false gods a-whore.
When surgical verse cuts deep it is to know,
To find at understanding's furthest shore
Why poison invades the brain's every pore.
Yet every poem encodes: I loved you so!

                                          30500

Darko R. Suvin